[B]eing distracted is not sinful per se, and we may be tempted to dismiss deep contemplation as only the province of professional scholars. But in fact, there is at least one area of life in which focused attention and deep reflection are crucial for all Christians:...

To date, the Nashville Statement is the best short statement addressing several current issues. It has been signed by a host of prominent evangelical leaders. You can download a PDF of the statement and the initial signers here.

God truly does delight in worship. If God is more pleased by practices other than worship, then it is very odd that worship saturates biblical descriptions of heaven. These angelic declarations of glory to God remind us that through our own worship, we join with the...

Now, presumably speech is not predicated of God and humans in a univocal manner: God’s speech did not involve the use of vocal chords, for example, and until matter was created there could have been none of the vibrations we associate with physical sound. Yet by...

Writing for The Imaginative Conservative, Gordon Arnold argues that Jonathan Edwards was a founding father of American political thought. Edwards offered a political philosophy which was simultaneously Augustinian and compatible with facets of the Enlightenment. He...